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Groundbreaking Measurement Reveals a Black Hole Spinning at a Quarter the Speed of Light
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A team of astronomers has managed to calculate the speed of a distant supermassive black hole’s spin thanks to the ...
Planet-forming disk spotted around star in another galaxy for the first time
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In a first, a newborn star’s spinning disk is seen in another galaxy
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By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Our sun and other stars form when a dense clump of interstellar gas and ...